19 Crazy Pictures That Prove Nature Is A Terrifying Hellscape

Don?t get me wrong, nature is great. It?s full of great stuff, like trees and pandas and nice looking flowers. It?s got loads going for it.

But these pictures will prove to you that nature is more like Game of Thrones than Kratt?s Creatures: it?s a terrifying place where death is imminent and you?ll always run into someone more powerful than you. ?Red in tooth and claw? indeed.

1. This crocodile eating a bull shark

The saltwater crocodile has a name: Brutus. Don?t mess with a modern-day dinosaur that has a human name.

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2. These hippos crushing a crocodile

Ok, maybe a hippopotamus could mess with Brutus.

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3. This orca jumping 15 feet out of the water

This killing machine is in hot pursuit of a bottlenose dolphin.

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Spoiler alert: she got it.

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4. This giant fruit bat

It belongs to a family called ?megabats?. Don?t worry, they?re harmless herbivores, but still?megabats.

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5. This giant catch

It?s a whale shark, an incredibly vulnerable species. The fishermen who pulled it in say they didn?t know it was a protected species, but still, this is the largest species of fish being so casually transported on a truck. Maybe the scariest thing about nature?is MAN.

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6. These sperm whale scars

The sperm whale gets its battle scars from fights with giant squids. We don?t even know much about the giant squid apart from what we find in a sperm whale?s stomach, but if it can do THAT to a whale?yikes.

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A couple of sucker marks, in case you weren?t convinced.

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via The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History/Smithsonian Report 1916

7. This gigantic jellyfish

For some reason, these jellyfish invaded the coast of Japan and NO ONE KNOWS WHY. Well, it might be warming oceans and more frequent El Nino events due to climate change. But still, who wants to go swimming next to a 200 kilogram sea alien?

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via FONDA LASHAY DESIGN

8. These giant hornets

Jellyfish aren?t the only things invading large parts of Asia: provinces in northern China have been combating an invasion of giant hornets. And these can actually kill you; they are very vicious and attack in giant swarms. The stings also leave a wound that looks like a bullet hole.

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9. The poisonous platypus

These cute lil guys?

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?will grow up to have these, which secrete venom during mating season (suggesting the males use them to fight off each other for a mate). The venom isn?t lethal to humans, just extremely painful.

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10. This eagle carrying away a fox

This Australian wedge-tailed eagle makes a meal out of a fox. Australia, get your shit together.

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11. This snake eating a toad WAY too big for it.

Nature?s appetite knows no limits.

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via The Sun/Scotch Macaskill/Caters News

12. This shark caught in the Mississippi River

Think you can avoid sharks by staying out of the ocean? THINK AGAIN. Bull sharks can travel up the Mississippi as far north as Illinois?more than 1000 kilometers away from the Gulf of Mexico.

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13. This golf course shark

When an overflowing river flooded a golf course in Brisbane, Australia, it left some gifts for golfers in the water hazard: a bunch of bull sharks! The population apparently thrives there.

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via The Daily Mail

14. This deceptively dangerous bird

The hooded pitohui looks pretty ordinary, right? A little like an oriole, nothing really all that?oh wait, it?s poisonous. Covering its skin and feathers is a neurotoxin that causes numbness and tingling if you touch it.

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15. This adorable slow loris

Look at this cute guy! Isn?t he just the sweetest? Well HE IS ALSO DANGEROUS. The bite of the slow loris is poisonous, a rare trait for a primate, and there has been one case of death by anaphylactic shock after being bitten. There is also proof that the wild loris adds new levels of poison due to its jungle diet.

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16. This weird caterpillar

Called the ?assassin caterpillar?, it?s the larval form of a South American moth. And it?s not only venomous, it is very lethal. AND look at how it blends in with its environment.

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17. This parasite that eats fish tongues

The Cymothoa exigua makes its way through the gills of fish, EATS OUT THEIR TONGUE, and then BECOMES THE NEW TONGUE. Sort of like Alien, except this one can find its way to your local supermarket.

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18. This python eating a crocodile

I probably don?t have to tell you this is from Australia.

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19. The inside of a leatherback turtle?s mouth

It helps them eat jellyfish, apparently.

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